The chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance is scheduled to appear in court
FILE - Dutch citizen Joran van der Sloot is driven in a police vehicle from a maximum-security prison to an airport to be extradited to the U.S., on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, June 8, 2023. Van der Sloot, the chief suspect in Natalee Holloway’s 2005 disappearance, is scheduled to appear in court Wednesday morning, Oct. 18, where he is expected to plead guilty to trying to extort money from her mother and provide new information about what happened to the missing teen.
Van der Sloot is not charged in Holloway's death. He is charged with trying to extort $250,000 from Holloway's mother, Beth Holloway, in 2010 to reveal the location of her daughter's remains.leaving a bar with van der Sloot. He was questioned in the disappearance but was never prosecuted. A judge declared Holloway dead, but her body has never been found.
A heavy media presence had begun assembling outside the federal courthouse nearly three hours before the hearing. Holloway’s family has long sought answers about her disappearance. If van der Sloot has given prosecutors and the family new details, a key question for investigators will be what is the credibility of that information. Van der Sloot gave different accounts over the years of that night in Aruba. Federal investigators in the Alabama case said van der Sloot gave a false location of Holloway's body during a recorded 2010 FBI sting that captured the extortion attempt.
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